Information Fusion Machine Learning Methods

In the big data era, increasing information can be extracted from the same source object or scene. For instance, a person can be verified based on their fingerprint, palm print, or iris information, and a given image can be represented by various types of features, including its texture, color, shape, etc. These multiple types of data extracted from a single object are called multi-view, multi-modal or multi-feature data. Many works have demonstrated that the utilization of all available information at multiple abstraction levels (measurements, features, decisions) helps to obtain more complex, reliable and accurate information and to maximize performance in a range of applications.

This book provides an overview of information fusion technologies, state-of-the-art techniques and their applications. It covers a variety of essential information fusion methods based on different techniques, including sparse/collaborative representation, kernel strategy, Bayesian models, metric learning, weight/classifier methods, and deep learning. The typical applications of these proposed fusion approaches are also presented, including image classification, domain adaptation, disease detection, image restoration, etc.

This book will benefit all researchers, professionals and graduate students in the fields of computer vision, pattern recognition, biometrics applications, etc. Furthermore, it offers a valuable resource for interdisciplinary research.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Information fusion based on sparse/collaborative representation.- Chapter 3. Information fusion based on gaussian process latent variable model.- Chapter 4. Information fusion based on multi-view and multifeature earning.- Chapter 5. Information fusion based on metric learning.- Chapter 6. Information fusion based on score/weight classifier fusion.- Chapter 7. Information fusion based on deep learning.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Jinxing Li received his BSc degree from the Department of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China, in 2012, his MSc degree from the Department of Automation, Chongqing University, China, in 2015, and his PhD from the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in 2018. His research interests include pattern recognition, medical biometrics and machine learning.

Bob Zhang received the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2011. After graduating, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

David Zhang graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc and his PhD (both in Computer Science) from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 1982 and 1985, respectively. From 1986 to 1988, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. In 1994, he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is a Chair Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he has been the Founding Director of the Biometrics Research Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government since 1998. He also serves as a Visiting Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and the HIT and as an Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, National University of Defense Technology and the University of Waterloo.